#1845 Clever Heroic Gods!

I’m typing this at 10:27am CT on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

At 8:45am this morning, I connected with Tania on our team to film some +1s.

Let’s take a moment to thank Tania!! We have HER and her awesome team to thank for all the content we create getting out to you!! 👏!!

Now…

After a little over an hour, I had filmed 8 of the 15 +1s I planned to film this morning.

Then my hard drive ran out of space and I couldn’t save the film files locally so we had to take a break so I could figure out how to clear some hard drive space.

Enter: ChatGPT for the quick query on how to best do it.

Easy day.

All I need to do is this then that then this and that and BOOM!

Speed is a force.

I just cleared 400GB of space.

And…

In the process…

I deleted the files we had JUST filmed before they had been successfully uploaded to Dropbox.

Oops.

🤦

And…

PERFECT.

I had to laugh.

We JUST spent the better part of an hour talking about Rule #1 of Stoicism.

Some things are within our control. Other things are not.

Once I had accidentally deleted the files we just worked on, there was, as far as I could tell, NOTHING I could do to get them back. (Yes, I deleted them from Trash as well.)

Now…

I have to say I kinda love these moments.

Once I do the super-quick mental check-in on whether I can do something about whatever I’m facing, I either DO THE THING I can do or I RADICALLY ACCEPT the reality of the situation.

In this case, getting upset about it made ZERO sense.

So…

I 1-2-3ed it by 1. Celebrating the fact I was crushing them to get ahead again, 2. I obviously shouldn’t have deleted that aggressively (mindful patience is a force, too!), and 3. I can assure you I won’t do that again! 😆 🤓

That’s Today’s +1.

The next time you hit a glitch, see how fast you can process it.

Make it a game.

Win that game.

TODAY.